Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods
Effective requires an accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities. The data for this evidence is often generated via lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members. This burden on respondents may lead to both losses and biases as they gro...
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| author | Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Mywish K. |
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| description | Effective requires an accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities. The data for this evidence is often generated via lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members. This burden on respondents may lead to both losses and biases as they grow fatigued during the interview. We test these hypotheses with an experiment in rural Ghana where we randomize individual household members’ position in the labor module. We find that moving a household member back by one position reduces their reported number of productive activities by 2.2% with average aggregate losses of 7.9%, or approximately one out of every twelve activities. Losses for women and youth are closer to one in nine. These biases result from both differential exposure to response fatigue (being positioned later in rosters) and differential vulnerability (greater impacts conditional on position). These results have important implications for data quality across many settings and topics. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1426822024-10-25T08:06:07Z Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Mywish K. gender surveys youth labour livelihoods survey methods rural areas Effective requires an accurate understanding of peoples’ livelihoods activities. The data for this evidence is often generated via lengthy surveys where designated respondents provide information about their household members. This burden on respondents may lead to both losses and biases as they grow fatigued during the interview. We test these hypotheses with an experiment in rural Ghana where we randomize individual household members’ position in the labor module. We find that moving a household member back by one position reduces their reported number of productive activities by 2.2% with average aggregate losses of 7.9%, or approximately one out of every twelve activities. Losses for women and youth are closer to one in nine. These biases result from both differential exposure to response fatigue (being positioned later in rosters) and differential vulnerability (greater impacts conditional on position). These results have important implications for data quality across many settings and topics. 2021-09-20 2024-05-22T12:10:52Z 2024-05-22T12:10:52Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142682 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134183 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133739 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134913 https://www.ifpri.org/blog/does-response-fatigue-bias-our-understanding-rural-livelihoods-against-women-and-youth Open Access Elsevier Ambler, Kate; Herskowitz, Sylvan; and Maredia, Mywish K. 2021. Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods. Journal of Development Economics 153(November 2021): 102736. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102736 |
| spellingShingle | gender surveys youth labour livelihoods survey methods rural areas Ambler, Kate Herskowitz, Sylvan Maredia, Mywish K. Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_full | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_fullStr | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_full_unstemmed | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_short | Are we done yet? Response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| title_sort | are we done yet response fatigue and rural livelihoods |
| topic | gender surveys youth labour livelihoods survey methods rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142682 |
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